Workshop

Isovalent Discovery Workshop: A Fast-Track to Cilium for Network Engineers

Virtual

A hands-on workshop to give you a quick, profound insight!

Kubernetes networking is challenging, but Isovalent empowers network engineers with Cilium—the powerful, eBPF-driven CNI designed for scalability, efficiency, and observability.

In this short session, we start with a quick introduction to key concepts before diving into an interactive Discovery Lab, where you’ll get hands-on experience with:

  • BGP with Cilium
  • IPv6 Networking
  • Load-Balancer Service IP Address Management (LB-IPAM)
  • BGP Service Announcement
  • L2 Service Announcement
  • Egress Gateway

The lab takes just 15 minutes, giving you valuable insights while keeping it short—no fluff, just practical, real-world learning. Finish the lab and earn a Credly badge!

Watch it on-demand and take the lab in your own pace. Access the lab here.

Connecting Kubernetes to the network and meshing clusters together is complex—but Isovalent makes it simple with Cilium. Want to see how? In under 45 minutes, get a quick, hands-on overview of how Cilium can streamline Kubernetes networking for you.

  • Raphaël Pinson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

    Raphaël is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer with Cloud Native networking and security specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium eBPF-based networking project. He works on Cilium, Hubble & Tetragon and the future of Cloud-Native networking & security using eBPF. An early adept of the DevOps principle, he has been a practitioner of Configuration Management and Agile principles in Operations for many years, with a special involvement in the Puppet and Terraform communities over the years.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

    Nico Vibert is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent, the company behind the open-source cloud-native solution Cilium. Prior to joining Isovalent, Nico worked in many different roles - operations and support, design and architecture, and technical pre-sales - at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware, and Cisco. In his current role, Nico focuses primarily on creating content to make networking a more approachable field and regularly speaks at events like KubeCon and Cisco Live. Nico has held over 15 networking certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE (# 22990). Nico is the co-author of the "Cilium: Up and Running" O'Reilly book and is the Lead Subject Matter Expert on the Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification.

March 20, 2025